Crushing Dissent at the RNC Convention
"Terrorizing Dissent" - a new documentary about the violent suppression
of peaceful protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul
this past July – is now available to download. (The trailer is here.)
Am I the only one who completely missed how big of a debacle
this was? That hundreds upon hundreds of peaceful protesters
were violently arrested and tear gassed, just for being outside the
designated "protest zone?" In the film, you see a whole park full of
people minding their own business, not even holding signs or anything,
get arrested. Most egregiously, journalists with valid press
credentials
were top among those systematically prosecuted.
A sad state of our democracy indeed.
Watch the thing. {via the huffington post}
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